Numerous humanitarian actions have been taken in North Macedonia to collect aid for residents affected by the devastating earthquake in some areas of Albania. The government of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, at an extraordinary meeting, has allocated a fund of 100,000 euros, while more than 100,000 have been allocated from municipalities and the Red Cross, […]
Rescue workers from Albania and neighbouring countries continued their efforts to reach survivors trapped in the rubble of buildings that collapsed in an earthquake that killed at least 28 people a day earlier. Twelve of the deaths occurred in Durres, a port and resort on Albania’s Adriatic coast, while 16 other people died in the […]
Skopje marks Thursday 55 years since the disastrous earthquake which leveled much of the city on this day in 1963, killing over 1.000 people and leaving 3.000 injured. An audio-artistic campaign titled “Wake Up Skopje” took place at five different locations in the capital at 05:17h, reminding citizens of the exact time of the earthquake. […]
A prolonged 7.2 magnitude quake that rocked Mexico on Friday left nearly a million homes and businesses without power in the capital and south but the only reported deaths came when a military helicopter crashed after surveying the aftermath. At least 50 homes suffered damage in the southern state of Oaxaca, which, along with Mexico […]
An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter Scale with epicenter of 30 kilometers west of Pekj, Kosovo, has been felt Thursday at 10:45 am in Skopje and northwest of Macedonia. According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the earthquake’s epicenter has been at the depth of 10 kilometers and besides in Kosovo and Macedonia, has […]
Series of earthquakes hit the Dojran region early on Tuesday, the strongest registered at 05:24h. The Seismological Observatory within the Skopje-based Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics said the epicenter of the 4,8-magnitude earthquake was 145km southeast of Skopje. The quake, which was also felt in Greece and Bulgaria, caused minor damages to buildings in […]
